2003 Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel

Community Tasting Notes (59) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  3/15/2024 - hrazdiiv Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Drank this from a half bottle and it was outstanding, what a treat. Unlike some of the previous reviewers, I felt the color was a medium-dark golden yellow, definitely showing its advanced age. The nose is really full yet well balanced at this point, with clove, ginger, papaya and caramel all making an appearance. The acidity - the strong suit of elite German wines - is present but mostly sanded down, as you’d expect, but still enough to balance this out a bit. I don’t have another bottle in the cellar but I’d love to see how this evolves. The secondary and tertiary elements will just get more interesting. I also think it has a super long life ahead of it. Plenty of fruit to keep this going. Wonderful viscosity lends itself to a beautifully long finish of 20+ seconds.

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  10/11/2022 - fisk15 wrote: 96 Points

  Fantastic, glad I have two more bottles. Held up well over the two days it was open.

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  6/4/2022 - jlm wrote:

  As other recent notes have said, this is drinking very well at the moment. The palate has a generous broadness from the fruit ripeness, but there's a bright acidity as well. If I were nitpicking, I might say I don't know that the acidity is perfectly harmonious with the fruit. But it's really a quibble; This was delicious, complex, and very enjoyable.

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  2/27/2022 - Caruso Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Light golden or intense straw with golden hue. Anyway there's a greenish hue as well. Beside its colour, if served blind I never thought that this is a 2003. This is fresh, with an extraordinary balance of fruit, sweetness and acidity. The acidity carries this in a long fruit driven complex finish. Mandarin and oranges quite upfront with honeysuckle, honey, whipped cream, peaches and a slight spicy note of clove. This is high in intensity with extraordinary vigor and way enough complexity and play. Cellared under perfect conditions since release. 5/13/19/10. -2040

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  1/24/2022 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  #15-04, 8.5% abv. From half-bottle. Despite having this recently, I opened another bottle of this to act as a foil for the 2004 and 2005 which I happened to have open at the same time. Between these three wines, the vintage character is very stark, and the ripeness and sweetness here shows through clearly and not in a detrimental way at all. There is more focus on the fruit here; it's very ripe in character, and the apple/malic sweetness (that you don't find in the 2005) reminds me pretty strongly of that king of apples, the honeycrisp. This is probably my favourite of the three vintages.

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